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An Ars Technica history of the Internet, part 1

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Credit: Rama & Muse Bolo (Wikipedia/Creative Commons), steve lodefink (Wikipedia/Creative Commons), The Computer Museum @ System Source In those days, computers took up entire rooms, and users accessed them through teletype terminalselectric typewriters hooked up to either a serial cable or a modem and a phone line.

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British Columbia History Digitization Program invites grant applications for the preservation of historical British Columbia materials

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The University of British Columbia‘s British Columbia History Digitization Program invites applications from private or public institutions and agencies that have the preservation of historical British Columbia materials as part of their mandate.

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Computer History Museum Releases Original AlexNet Code

TechRepublic

Google and the Computer History Museum release AlexNets original 2012 source code on GitHub, offering a rare look at a pivotal moment in AI history.

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Flashy exotic birds can actually glow in the dark

Ars Technica

She and her team studied a treasure trove of specimens at the American Museum of Natural History, which have been collected since the 1800s, and found that 37 of the 45 known species of birds of paradise have feathers that fluoresce. This is why biologist Rene Martin of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln wanted to investigate.

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Assassin’s Creed Shadows is the dad rock of video games, and I love it

Ars Technica

Theres no more relaxing place to go after a difficult day: historical outdoor museum tours, plus dopamine dispensers, plus slow-paced assassination simulators. Im only 40 hours into Shadows (I reckon Im only about 30 percent through the game), but I already consider it one of the best entries in the franchises long history.

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Colorful and Nvidia are opening the world's first GPU museum

TechSpot

The museum, located in at Shenzhen New Generation Industrial Park where Colorful recently located, contains a visual history of the Graphics Processing Unit’s evolution, starting from the 1980s up to the present day.

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The strange tale of how an Apple II computer still powers Russia’s Lenin Museum

Digital Trends

In an unusual twist of history, the Apple II computer ended up powering exhibitions at none other than the Lenin Museum in the USSR. Here’s how it happened.

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